VLC: Display the elapsed time of a film

While watching a movie, you can type the T key: VLC displays the elapsed time and time remaining. But ... this information remain only a few seconds on the screen. To view these figures permanently, you need to install a small add-on. To do this, on the Tools menu, Extensions and plugins and click on the link addons.videolan.org. On the Web page that appears, scroll to the item Time. Select it and click the Download button.
A page appears in your browser. Pull down the File menu, Save As ... and then successively open the C: \ Programs, VideoLAN, VLC, and Lua Extensions (if it does not exist, create the folder in Lua). Save the file with the name that is proposed or 149,618-time.lua. Close and restart VLC.
Then pull down the View menu and select Time. Choose what you want to display (system time, duration of the film past time remaining ...), click >> PUT-IN, then minimize the window without closing Time to keep the display.

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